You aren’t allowed to make a coffee and keep it out back?

Are people hanging out back excessively? The only reason I could see for this. Otherwise that is ridiculous and only 3 drinks a shift has not been a rule in stone ever...

The only (brief) time my SM enforced something like this in our store was when baristas were leaving multiple drinks for themselves a shift, leaving our VERY small backroom so loaded with drinks it was impossible to do anything at the BOH desk. Sometimes closing crew would forget some and they'd be left overnight, sometimes one of our less careful partners would leave them in weird places (on shelves, on the BOH sink... Everywhere) and I think my SM snapped. Once everyone demonstrated they could get it together he let us go back to normal, though.

And yeah, that 3 drinks a shift rule is bullshit.

3 drinks per shift? Is that what your management told you?!

One time I came in early and had a preshift drink, then had 2 con pannas on the floor, had a drink on my 30 PLUS both of my 10's, then got a drink when I left. It was a Sunday. I try not to work Sundays anymore. It's better for our store's bottom line.

Usually I have one before my shift and one at the end, when I leave. But if I wanted more in between, I wouldn't hesitate! This was the biggest reason I wanted to work at SB, lol. Free Doubleshots.

Besides, our SM marks out between 3-5 drinks per shift, every shift, easily. She is the most rule-abiding person I have ever met in my life, like I am pretty sure she's the one that handed the 10 Commandments to Moses or whomever. There's no way that's an official SB company rule.

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ETA: If it is an official rule, color me stunned. It would feel like Santa being unmasked all over again.

This is bananas. The only reason I could think of for this is the pandemic. However, when all this corona craziness began, we were told we needed to stop bringing personal cups in, but we can still have our drinks in back. Keeping hydrated is def super important. Like someone else said, your DM seems to be power tripping or something. What a waste to have to throw out so much plastic and product for no reason. So odd.

Same thing at my store. As far as I know this is not permanent. It’s because of the virus and it is too easily spread with drinks sitting out in the open/ next to each other. We have a rack where we store all the drinks so obviously that’s not going to work during the pandemic. It should be temporary. When we can have personal cups back I’m sure we’ll be able to store drinks again.